The Effect of Economic Integration with China on the Future of American Corporate Law

Abstract:     
China's development into a world economic power and its continuing integration with the United States economy raise the question whether China's own history and the socialist context of its domestic corporate law may affect the meaning of business terms in use both internationally and in American domestic corporate law. Of particular interest is the question whether China's entry and impact may blunt the late-twentieth century effort in the United States to change the legal sense of the purpose of an American business corporation.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 8

Keywords: China, Chinese Corporate Law, Chinese socialism, Chinese capitalism, American Law Institute, American corporate law, World Trade Association, business, business purpose, business schools, law schools, law and economics, international business law, constituency statutes, rules of profession

JEL Classification: K22, K33

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